You’ve in all probability heard of Willie Weir. In actual fact, for those who’ve ever learn a replica of Journey Bicycle owner journal, you’ve possible seen his work. He’s humorous, an imaginative storyteller, and a wild and wacky character. However his e-book “Spokesongs”, sadly, isn’t any of these issues. I like Willie, however Spokesongs left me sorely disenchanted.
To start with, the e-book is a large 256-page hardback. It weighs a couple of pound and was clearly not created with the traveler in thoughts. It doesn’t simply match inside a backpack or a set of panniers. The writer apparently forgot that some individuals may really wish to learn the e-book whereas performing some touring of their very own. By no means earlier than have I seen a journey e-book so ill-designed for its meant viewers.
However then I began studying. The textual content was massive and the chapters had been brief – most of them only a couple pages in size. There was some apparent padding occurring right here.
The tales had been good, however not nice. As Willie admits in the beginning of the textual content, many of the tales come from pre-published articles he had written for different publications. And since the tales are scattered about from three completely different bicycle excursions, the entire e-book comes throughout as disjointed and boring.
Maps displaying the place every story is happening on the planet try to string the tales collectively, however I discovered myself ignoring the maps altogether as they offered little, if any, help in following Willie’s adventures.
Whereas just a few of the tales all through “Spokesongs” had been humorous, enlightening, or encouraging, the e-book as a complete is simply plain forgettable.
Three hours after beginning the textual content I reached the final web page. I don’t suppose I’ve ever learn such a gigantically sized e-book in such a short while. And albeit, I wasn’t unhappy that the journey was over. I used to be blissful to shed a pound of paper from my panniers… and I used to be able to get again to my travels and begin creating some “spokesongs” of my very own.
Willie Weir’s “Spokesongs” is on the market at Amazon.com